I used to tip my regular food delivery guy very well and we had short bonding talks. Well last year shit went pretty bad and I couldn't afford to tip him that much and eventually I stopped ordering. I ran into him last month. He said he thought I moved. I told him shit just wasn't great for a while. He said he understood, and gave me a joint and told me to just do what I can. I'm a 35 year old man. It took all the energy in my being for me not to cry like a baby. Awesome dude!
@@Wildcat82164 my sister (able bodied in her 30) used a grocery delivery service one super snowy day (pre-pandemic) and a 70 year old woman had to go out in the storm to deliver to her. My sister didn’t even shovel her walk or driveway for her delivery person. The woman got her car stuck in my sisters driveway. Moral-my sister is an arsehole
I’d prefer they have a livable wage instead of living on tips, tips just make companies legally not need to pay the employee. You see those “man tips $2,000” feel good stories. But how about if no one tipped $2,000, because the worker was already financially stable? Let me guess bartending shouldn’t pay like an educated position? That sounds elitist, i thought you people were anti elite?
@@Wildcat82164 I get it. I'm youngish and fit and running errands are the only activity out of the apartment I can get most days, so why would I spend more money and be lazy with deliveries??
it's mostly annoying when celebrities say "we are all in this together" from their 4th house with $35 million in their bank account while I'm out doing Uber Eats
I find Bill Maher so obnoxiously annoying. He spent 30 years riling up hate for everything and making everything about what divides us. Any point he makes about not being divisive is hypocritical. I really don't need to hear this guy lecture me anymore. There's already enough of that everywhere.
Almost 50 and still single. I can assure you that wasn't the plan. I can also assure you seeing my friends and family struggling with marriages, divorces and children and the financial implications of all three played a role in the result. If our leaders want to help out families then they should stop perpetuating a world where its cost prohibitive to start one much less keep the damned thing together.
Not afraid of getting old alone? It's harder to make friends and to keep friends when everybody around you is either in a long term relationship or... dead.
@@georgethompson3763 If I had a dollar per every family man who died alone, I'd be rich and could afford to start a family while not changing my odds of dying alone.
Thanks you. So sick of hearing stuff like, "While we're all stuck at home" when most of my family is still having to work in person, including my 72-year-old Dad.
@@hew195050 It's not a generational thing. Baby Boomers are both largely responsible for building this mess of a country as well as suffering the worst of it. Likewise the younger generations are also profiting from and suffering from inequality. If you need an "us and them" it's the same one it has been for 10,000 years: the wealthy and the rest of us.
yeah i used to cringe when people said it. it used to be a race to who said it first. always felt it was disingenuous. just like waving an American flag is cheap patriotism.
I finally snapped one day after someone said "thank you for your service", I replied "don't thank me for killing people in your name so you didn't have to do it!". It felt like a huge weight was lifted from my soul.
@@lakersfansince1991 Honestly speaking, we as a collective are more to blame than our political leaders because we have decided that voting, which is a necessary evil, will be based on party affiliation far more than issues. That said, these guys use their positions to enrich themselves and as long as their kids are safe who cares. That said, my comments weren't going down that rabbit hole. I focused more on the mindset of the public but I appreciate your opinion and I respect you as a brother in arms
@@lakersfansince1991 Who are you directing your comment to? Joining the military doesn't automatically mean one is in support of "politicians who have no problem 'wihh th' sending you or me out to die". People who make comments like yours wouldn't last one day in the military.
That literally happened to be with United several years ago. It was 50.1 pounds, and the lady said, that'll be $100. I asked for the supervisor, and he came, heard 50.1 pounds and just flipped me over and demanded $100. I just took out a sweater, and it was under 50 lbs. Cocksuckers.
@@jimmydriveway Yes good jobs were you get paid less than minimum wage and you have to supply all the consumables to do the job. Including the wear and tear on their cars many Uber and Lyft drivers are loosing money on their jobs.
Keep this energy when the next mainstream candidate touts "jobs jobs jobs" instead of careers. The last 20 years, over 90% of the new jobs created have been temp gig or contract. AKA no benefits, stability or job security.
" rugged individualism " for the workers .welfare for rich . every bailout , financial aid , zero interest loans and the largest amount goes to the upper class first and the lower class last with the least . ones that need the least get the most first and those that need it the most get the least last . best govt. for lobbyists and similar grifters and those they represent . " for the love of money a man will sell his own brother.. "
But careers are for those who most likely complete higher education at the university level. If college is affordable, perhaps these careers can pop up. On-campus living should be affordable, at least competitive with off-campus housing to encourage continuing education as well. But, this is America.
It's the Republicans who do this, usually when describing some way to help people financially as a "job killer." Some jobs need to be killed so careers, or at least living-wage jobs, can live.
So true. Fuck jobs I want a career. Baby Boomers won't get the fuck out of the way and have bottle necked the system. I was hoping covid would have wiped a lot of them out. Oh well, maybe the next new mutant strain will?
We're all in this together.. says the CEO of huge companies who don't have to go out and work in a pandemic.. they're safely at home while the people who they pay $12 an hour are working in this mess...
We never were in the first place. Life is a game and you will make it or not depending on how you play it. People only "care" for you when they have to and will only do certain things IF they have to. If not, their behavior does not change and they could give a rat's ass about you. The way to play the game is to become the best in whatever you want to do, find a good organization and create a strong team of co-dependence and self-interest. Do not spread yourself out unless you really have to. You will only fuck up your mentality and identity having to change all the time and going in different directions. Go all-in for 1 thing, it's always the best thing.
Im an uber eats driver in the UK, Ive never had so many tips as during the last few days while its been snowing and awful, at least some people appreciate that we are out in the cold, bringing food to their nice, warm house.
Cars can be warmth cocoons too but you do have to leave them briefly to do your job. I love all this curbside stuff. Just sit in the warm car and listen to music.
i do doordash/grubhub full time for the past 2 yrs and 4 months...in that time i've only taken 3 weeks off, TOTAL. in 2020, i took 3 days off in april and that was it. i've been busting my fucking ass like you wouldn't believe. over 10k deliveries in that time.
The UK government also used this slogan when their economy wasn't doing well. And I thought the same thing. It's often being said by people who got plenty of money and won't feel a thing from the 💩 situation you're in.
Actually, it's about talking of everyone as being part of society. It is the job of the government, to care for all its citizens. At least, it should be in America where the creed is "A government for the people, by the people".
Single people should get a free ride from the government for not adding to the population, frankly. And no, I'm not being tongue in cheek. Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unplanned, so it's a combination of being uneducated and careless which is contributing to the destruction of our environment. Time to reward the responsible ones.
@Alternative Headlines I've heard that argument many times over from overpopulation deniers, and I'm not going to revisit all the talking points of why you're dead wrong. But asking people to alter their consumption habits has about much chance of working as telling people to stop fucking, so we're destined for failure either way.
I disagree with Bill on plenty, but the reason I’ve been a fan for over 20 years is because he keeps it real. This is the most realistic and accurate depiction of our current state I’ve heard.
No shit sherlock, and you just barely noticed that now? If the people running all these instruments are considered not so intelligent, then we all know where that puts you right?! Or can you not figure that one either?
No shit sherlock, and you just barely noticed that now? If the people running all these instruments are considered not so intelligent, then we all know where that puts you right?! Or can you not figure that one either?
2nd death from Covid in the last two weeks at my wife's workplace. The companies response? "Employees should take their own temperature before coming to work." This from a multi-national company with billions in assets. I guess buying some themometers and paying someone to screen workers at the door is just too costly. Apparently making copier toner is an "essential service".
A, fellow Staples employee I see? We had two coworkers already get infected. They're both still alive, but we were given the same response "Just take your own temperature before coming to work". You'd think we'd at least force the customers to take it because THEY'RE the ones who likely got our employees sick but hey, when you're a multibillion dollar company, what's a few infected and possibly dead employees, if you can replace them with others easily? My manager might actually care more about my health than the company, if only because he sent us home both of those days and makes it a point to make sure customers wear their masks (and sanitizes and cleans the store like an OCD neat freak). Can't say the same about upper management though.
This is frightening to most people. Think about the fallout. Babies (boys) are not being born, no one to send off to war to protect the country. Slowly losing grip on their way of life with privilege. That's why they must promote 'the family'.
@@unbotheredmovement If the country's leaders really want to improve conditions to increase reproduction and promote the family, then they really need to focus on restoring American confidence in the economy. These situations are side effects of what is happening in the economy right now.
@@kevinkim3793 you say "restore confidence in the economy". Agreed! However, at what cost? Keep giving corporations tax breaks and pray for the trickle-down? Or beg them not to manufacture/outsource overseas?
Until we can effectively & thoroughly care for each and every one of our current citizens, including the most vulnerable, we haven't earned the right to add to the population.
Awwwwwwwww I’m an instacart delivery driver with severe asthma, hypertension and on immunosuppressants. Not ideal to be out there 7 days a week but I don’t have many other options (yet!) this was nice to hear, thanks bill!
Bill has never been more on the money here. Retail and food service workers are indentured servants and the people who use our services are our masters.
Except for him still being unable to see the larger problem behind the gig economy etc. which isn't evil cancel culture (his favourite topic) but rather commodification of all parts of life, also called american capitalism. Even if he doesn't want to go there he would've had the chance to talk about prop22 in California. But pf course he's way to lazy to research about that
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra lol. Which country? Bruh, this is relative to the world. It’s called globalization, right it’s someone else’s excuse. Plus another generations head ache. Blah blah.
@@veitdalee4810 Exactly, he really didn't talk about it at all. He jumped from topic to topic and no point of substance was ever made. Funny how the Californian didn't even mention how Prop 22 is fucking over those same gig workers he started talking about.
I get the idea that this gig economy is the long-term result of Reaganomics: more and more money is directed to the top of the economic pyramid, with less financial and labor security for the lower echelons.
@Novak Tolee I live in a state with legal casino gambling (not Nevada), and I see PoC doing the most menial jobs, like emptying the garbage, while all the bartenders are white. I haven't gone back to that particular casino in over 18 months and don't ever plan to go back.
Here in New Zealand at about the same time we had a guy named Roger Douglas who was the instigator of this same kind of economic change. We call it Rogernomics. He has since admitted it was wrong.
@@tumsfestival Bartending - the first thing I think of when I hear not menial work. That's why when people mock AOC, they call her a bartender/waitress because it's such a glamorous, highly skilled profession.
@@delailama736 the position would be better filled by an old, white male that's why haha. Mocking AOC by a position similar to the people is problematic. Since the Senate or House shouldn't be represented by such obviously... change scares people.
@@xSUBIACOx Oh, stop. Im a gay man with no horse in race of hetero culture, and I've dealt with my share of those passive aggressive sighs from my female friends for along as I can remember. In fairness, there are gay man who have been able to perfect that action. The point is, I get it. There is something to be said for being alone with no one to answer to. I love being childless. I've done so much I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. I'll risk being alone in my 80's. It'll be worth it for what I done and seen in the here and now. I'm just sick of being treated like crap for it, and that feeling is growing nationally.
@@hagdore No, singles aren't oppressed. At least I'm not. It's just bizarre politicians and the media yammer on and on about families and never talk about single people. I'm not "offended" by it. It's just really odd.
My least favorite part of being single is how some people view single life. I have been told twice that my life has no meaning or value, simply because I'm single. It's just mind blowing that some people think getting married and/or having kids is the only way to have a fulfilling life.
"Getting a good night's sleep... not sharing the remote, or changing dirty diapers...never having to have a relationship talk, or having to listen to a passive aggressive sigh - PRICELESS." Bill just summed up the source of my personal happiness for decades, and I'm sure he speaks for MILLIONS of us around the world.
bill seems to be a little a disgruntle when it comes to being single and having a hot asian chic , on the other side of the fiber optic cable . i guess bill does not like to stroke , that is probably why bill smokes weed it makes him limp . Bill you really should look up the New England Journal of medicine on prostate and masturbating . And Elvis always said if you cant find a partner grab wooden chair sweet heart .
@@davidthompson7873 fact that I was worth it doesn't change the fact that 1. millions of us are happy not being married, 2. Millions more are miserable BEING married, 3. Bill is right to point out that laws and politics favors the one and not the other for completely arbitrary reasons
@@keithknetge6908 I'm actually even better off than you are, and not even born in the US and have been working remotely way before Covid, but I'm not blind to what I see around me when I'm in the US. You're like the guy who look at a guy who's been shot with a .357 magnum in the chest and survived and says, see, no big deal being shot with that caliber. Talking about your case is talking about one case, it's anecdotal. When you take the average US citizen most of them can't even find 400 bucks in case of emergency. I'm sure you've read that article 3 years ago, in the Atlantic, I believe? The average citizen in the US is doing worse than most people in France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Japan at all level, financially, as far as life expectancy and more. So you're saying that a poor black girl born from a crack mother in some of the worse place in DC in a country where her state won't do shit for her has the same chance as a white jewish boy born in Bethesda and whose parents are both lawyers? Are these two people starting with the same tools to work hard at it?
@@PhilippeOrlando Speaking as an atheist, what does religion have to do with your hypothetical white boy? Could just as easily be an evangelical Christian or Buddhist.
32yr old here single female here as well and totally appreciate his commentary. As I get older, I'm thinking I may not want to have children, and am feeling I will be VERY okay with this decision, not empty nor unfulfilled. However, I am starting to see how society/the media expects me at my age to idk maybe have a husband/have children... be in this nuclear family box.
@@lizziedrucker9586 - ever since i was a kid myself, the thought of raising children my whole life seemed horrible lol. Watching my parents argue and bicker constantly, 2 people who seemingly have nothing in common and don't enjoy each other's company but built an entire life together because "it was time to have kids" and that's just "what people do", engrained in me from a young age what a fucked up dynamic that was and how it's even more fucked up that it's what society seems to push as "normal". The lazy dad who just wants to drink beer and watch football, the naggy wife who never wants her husband to drink beer and watch football, the shithead kids who run around screaming, that is what was constantly painted as a "normal life" most places you looked and i could just never wrap my head around that. Now at 35, it's even truer than it used to be. Despite the fact that i did get married, it's a completely different dynamic lol and we spent YEARS listening to the "oh just wait, you'll get a couple years older and realize how bad you want kids, you'll realize you have to do it before you get to old and can't enjoy things the same" and SO MANY people just couldn't comprehend that we so legitimately wanted nothing to do with it. The argument is to do it while you're young because you'll get too old? So spend the prime fucking years of my life changing diapers and dealing with temper tantrums because it will suck worse to deal with that when i'm older? SO WHY DO IT AT ALL THEN ?!?! i'll keep my time and money for myself i think, barely enough of both to go around as it is lol I'm sure raising kids can be wonderful for some people, doesn't mean we're all expected to do it. There are a million ways to fulfill your life, don't let anyone else tell you what requires.
@@AI3Dorinte the real issue is percentages. There needs to be a threshold of births and the infrastructure to support and educate them to become productive people.
Yes, I cherished living alone, especially when I was finally able to buy a nice little beach shack on the Central Coast of California. I worked a long hard day, and when I come home I don't want to deal with a bunch of BS. It's a luxury to live well alone. Thanks Bill, much appreciated.
Way underpaid. I left America in 2015 making 7.25 an hr working 40hrs a week as a childcare worker. I was making more at the center I worked at then another woman who worked at a church daycare where she had been employed for over 20 years. Its crazy. Its one of the most important jobs and they get poverty wages.
@@colleenmaecallender7478 here in MA the average annual cost for daycare is about $34,381 per child...where’s the fee going to? Lining the daycare owner’s pockets?
I heard that! I'm single, gay, I have no kids. I feel like I'm just looked over by politicians. Some aren't wild about my lifestyle but they sure love my income tax.
Alone. Lifetime single here, never had children (no regrets). I've paid school taxes my entire adult life. Do I get a break on income tax? Nope. Society punishes singles.
@@betz6507 - Correct, and OECD figures have made this clear for years. The single and childfree pay in, but get far less back, as it's all built on the notion that our turn will come around. Increasingly, that's been proven to be incorrect.
Considering that the proportion of single people is ever-increasing, and indeed that the single and childfree bear the highest tax wedge in pretty much all OECD countries, this is something where old taxation models are still rather built on 1950s social models of working husband, stay-at-home wife and don't reflect current realities anywhere near as much.
The emaphasis on family is up there with politicians only acknowledging the middle class. Lots of people aren't middle fuckin' class, either, and during the pandemic that's who has made this country run.
I spent two days on a hotel that was all I was locked down. I like being outside. I liked spending a few hours a day sitting around Starbucks or a library. That's all I miss about pre lockdown.
Watching this as I reflect upon selling some of my mom's jewelry today. Edit: It's actually my jewelry that she left to me. Sounded like I stole her stuff, lol.
@@sarahwyatt2697 you are very mean. There was a person sharing something personal and you kick her in the teeth! Not such a lovely human being you are. U can do better than this.
Our Prime minister is single here in the Netherlands, that has actually been kind of refreshing. And like most single people he gets a lot of work done.
@@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109 the kind of person who wants to help someone get a job in the future? What kind of asshole doesn't know the difference between you, your and you're? Our bastardization (English) of many languages. You could at least have a 5th grade level understanding of it.
@WorldFlex , I've often said single people and childless couples are the ones getting screwed at tax time. Interesting how the same politicians who complain there are to many people using up earth's resources are the same politicians who reward those who have more children.
Reminds me of a kitschy cushion I saw in a gift shop once that said 'A house is not a home without children'. I pointed out to the shop owner that, amongst other things, people unable to have children would find such a statement upsetting.
The gig economy is just the end result of decades of growing wealth inequality. What you're seeing now is the bottom 50% literally picking up table scraps off the floor; scavenging for a dollar anywhere they can find one. This is what "trickle down" ended up being, and it's not like economists haven't been ringing alarm bells for years.
@@98ifylopio If the Republikkkan Party disappeared around 1960s the US would be in a much better place. Americans would be as prosperous as Europeans We need to demand the Minimum wage working for big businesses should be up to 21/hr
I did the math and it basically costs the same to heat or cool a home, light a room, have cable or netflix, and pay rent or property taxes for both singles and couples, but a couple potentially has 2 incomes, which means many singles are already paying more for everything, that couples share. And even when things do cost couples more like increased energy consumption, the rate rarely doubles. Singles don't benefit from joint tax filing, or family plans. Couples can share nearly everything from the couch they sit on to the pots and pans in the kitchen. But I'm frequently told that we have to help families...Take that sob story elsewhere. Just because couples didn't think to buy birth control with all the money they saved not being single, dosen't obligate me to subsidize their life. I'm not saying don't help the less fortunate but politicians can quit trying to pull on my heart strings with talk of struggling families. It's not just families who are struggling...maybe just refer to us all as struggling Americans, that seems more accurate 🤔
As a single teacher, I can confirm - I raise the next generation a bunch more than many parents, and as much as others Edit: Given the nature of the comments, I feel it necessary to add that I do not teach in the US and that I teach kids from very poor areas, most of whom have terrible families. I am, however, also aware that much of the US faces the same plague of terrible families, and that more often than not it falls onto us teachers to do the parenting that the parents should be doing, and that it was to that which I was referring. The fact that me and some of the commentors do live in such different realities, however, only goes to show testament to the very problems Bill is describing here
As a married father of two who's a teacher, no you don't! How much daily shit and piss do you deal with? How much frustration at home trying to work or do daily tasks with constant interruption to make drinks, break up fights, bathe children, or force them to do schoolwork? I'm in no way belittling teaching but it's NOT the same. You should have more respect for your students' working parents and stop judging them.
@@djb903 There's a reason I said some. Most of my students are a seriously abused at home and I'm their last line of defence. All the things you do to you for your kids - nobody does for these, and it falls on me. Poor areas don't have the privilege of being filled with parents who do anything for their kids
@@ibeg0ht or maybe I'm not even in an English speaking country Or maybe I know that there's a difference between formal grammar and the grammar used on the internet Or maybe a bit of both
Single people do and always have gotten a bad rap. I’m a single 29 yr old living alone with my dog and am very okay with that. If you have/want kids and a family that’s great, but society shouldn’t subordinate everyone else who doesn’t.
Single military personnel are paid less and stand guard duty more than married personnel. They chose to marry. Why are singles being discriminated against?
Because they choose to not exploit the hustle with another service member they dont love to make more money. I was a single service member, I chose that, but I'm not going to whine, bitch and moan about it, I got paid well.
I refused to even have a gf until I found one who is not interested in marriage or having kids. You don't have to settle people, your unicorn is out there lol
Always turn it round. Rude questions deserve rude answers. If anyone asks me when I'm having kids, I say "same time you get an abortion", and if anyone asks me when am I getting married, I say "same time you get divorced".
@@robinjames8727 I live alone not by choice and by choice but I don't let that consume me, I'm happy most of the time. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something constructive or creative with your time is the key to being happy on your own instead of drowning in your thoughts/feelings of loneliness, a pet helps too.
Well Bill I'm a single New Yorker too and I love how I don't need to change diapers, but we need to take care of families, because as a teacher they are the source of my income, and you should know how fucked up rent is in Long island without a good wage
I have none. My sister has 7. I think the next generation's probably covered, though it's true there are likely to be fewer of them overall. That just means we'll have to start letting in immigrants to keep up with the labor demands, greater automation, or that the kids will have much better prospects in the labor market because there will be fewer of them to compete and we will have hopefully done what we could to change policies that have screwed us over. There are still children. There's just fewer of them. That can be a good thing.
@sabbracadabra right but people with kids need more support because the future of society depends on them. Today’s children will be the workforce that pays social security taxes and develops cures and defends our borders when we’re old. No kids, no society. That’s why government focuses on it
Maher's one of those child-free hypocrites who gushes over his dogs-- who never grow up and out of their eternal toddler stage-- yet bitches about babies.
@Science is Hard I look at my married friends and think, "That looks like more work than I want to do, but kudos to them for making it work." I'm independent and plan to stay that way; I don't always feel like our culture has an understanding outlook on that.
I’ve worked all through the entire pandemic. I’m thankful for my job, but my friends who’ve gotten unemployment make more than their current job and just do what they want all day. Seems a little unfair to me, but I’ll continue to count my blessings and appreciate my lame job because so many have lost theirs.
Well, I'm one of those single people, but I still think it's very important to strengthen families and empower children etc. But thanks Bill, humorous and entertaining and thought provoking.
I’m glad that bill just brought up the struggles of single folk. I just broke up with my gf and I have no idea how I’m gonna get back out there. I can’t go to bars or clubs. Now I’m thinking about asking out the girl that works at my local 7-eleven which I’ve literally never done before. Wish me luck y’all
"Can't go to bars or clubs" - why? It might be just as well -- meeting people when there's alcohol involved is often not a good thing. (Booze can make people flaky.) BUT I have met a few cool people in, say, clubs where there is live music -- if you maybe chat with someone that's THERE because they actually LIKE THE MUSIC as opposed to "being there because it's a club/because they want to look cool/etc." I'm a single jazz fan guy and if I go to this club to hear some music yet if I don't "meet anyone," I can say to myself, "Hey, at least I heard a good band tonight." Hey, even if you DON'T "meet someone" maybe ya heard some cool sounds, dig?
Ever thought of spending some time alone? You might find you really like your own company. It can be really great hanging out w yourself and a few friends plus getting to know yourself better can only benefit your next relarionship
The "gig economy" may have also inadvertently contributed to the spread of covid, as millenials and boomers alike are learning that not every house should be a hotel and not every car should be a taxi.
I love the freedom that freelancing brings... I'd appreciate you not taking that flexibility away from me and instead locking me into a scheduled contract where I feel a bit like a slave :)
That's the present. The future will be the same but in a virtual reality indistinguishable from this one-and in which people can make their virtual selves and environments anything they want them to be.
A human right, and others have the human right to do so and raise their children with dignity and respect that the corrupt two party duopoly will only give lip service to because it only wants to maintain its corruption by dividing us.
Yup. When my friends who chose to have a family complain about how they never get any peace and quiet, I just laugh. You signed up for it, honey. Me, I signed up for no kids and sleep whenever I want it. And it's great!
What’s worse than the “families” focus - all the boomer ads showing the blissful over 65 “couple” coiffed & perfect on a Caribbean Island 🌴 drinking Mai tai’s & rich - when reality over half living on social security & alone
As a nurse I can’t stand hearing the “we’re in this together”. Cause that comes from people who get to work from home nice and cozy, aren’t dealing with the actual cons of this health crisis. Like sorry I don’t get to work from my couch, my life is still going on just a more hellish version at work. Most people won’t even fucking just stay home to stop spreading the virus. This pandemic taught me how selfish people are even more
I don't mind when people say this to get everyone to mask up, social distance and make sacrifice because in that sense we are in this together because if you don't wear a mask you endanger me regardless. So I don't agree with Maher here we are all in this together to a certain degree. Your behavior affects me. However when you are using this phrase in the way of economics and exposure we are not all in this together some people face greater risk because of what they do.
Love Bill when it comes to being proudly childless! I got to fifties without ever needing a child in my life. Have about 40 friends who didn’t bother with children either. Sick to death of people breeding all the time.
@RandomName 07 I don't regret having kids; I saved a great deal of money on paying for educations and clothes and other bullshit that America's "Keep up with the Jones" lifestyle implores!!! Why am I supposed to drive for stupid basketball tournaments or soccer tournaments and pay for fucking hotels for this bullshit. When I was a kid I worked a paper route and bought a glove and joined the local little league where all of the games were played in our town and rode a bike to the games. My parents came when they had time and no god damned money shelled out for out of town bullshit. Kids today are money pits for activities that by in large they'll never make a living at it sports wise!!! And many of them whine and gripe and give you grief for years on end; not all but how does one know how a kid will act after you have them.
I'm 70 yo, never married, didn't want children. Getting an extra week off from work, almost impossible. However, a colleague had 3 children in 5 years which means she had PAID LEAVE for 3 months per child. All I heard at work was it's about the family. When my nephew graduated HS, I could not get the whole day off. I had to work until 1 pm. Yes, it's about THEIR FAMILIES, not mine.
I’m all for people getting good vacations times, and recognizing that family means different things to different people. Your employers should recognize that your time matters as much as anyone else’s. I also want to say, caring for a newborn is damn hard work. You don’t get to go home and relax or get a full nights sleep. I’m all for parents’ time being compensated. We need an economy that works better for everyone.
I’ve had the same partner for 20 years. He lives in his house. 80 miles away. I live in mine. Wonderful, warm, loving relationship. Oh! No children. Yeah!!!
Yes! Thank you Bill! When do I get MY tax break and/or welfare for being a responsible human being, planning wisely to avoid unwanted pregnancies, and NOT contributing to overpopulation on this planet?
As a delivery driver at a pizza restaurant Bill was spot on in this segment
I used to tip my regular food delivery guy very well and we had short bonding talks. Well last year shit went pretty bad and I couldn't afford to tip him that much and eventually I stopped ordering. I ran into him last month. He said he thought I moved. I told him shit just wasn't great for a while. He said he understood, and gave me a joint and told me to just do what I can. I'm a 35 year old man. It took all the energy in my being for me not to cry like a baby. Awesome dude!
UBI is needed to fix this freaking mess
@Justin Barton
I didn’t know Bill is a delivery driver at a pizza restaurant.
I work at Kroger he's right.
It’s been especially infuriating this past year. “Thank you essential workers, your heroes!”
“Okay, how about a raise?”
“That’s socialism!”
"not having to listen to a passive-aggressive sigh"....Priceless....
Probably my favorite line in this clip lmao. Fuckin felt that one
That's one of the most annoying forms of 'communication', indeed.
@@dimtool 😂 yeah that last part was my favorite.
My daughter is 10. I love her more than anything, and at the same time, I want her just to shut her passive-aggressive trap sometimes. 😂🤩
@@christinet6336 😂
I am 70 and disabled. I rely on those wonderful people who are busting their butts making deliveries. I make sure to tip them well.
@@Wildcat82164 my sister (able bodied in her 30) used a grocery delivery service one super snowy day (pre-pandemic) and a 70 year old woman had to go out in the storm to deliver to her. My sister didn’t even shovel her walk or driveway for her delivery person. The woman got her car stuck in my sisters driveway. Moral-my sister is an arsehole
@@Wildcat82164 yup, me too.
I’d prefer they have a livable wage instead of living on tips, tips just make companies legally not need to pay the employee.
You see those “man tips $2,000” feel good stories.
But how about if no one tipped $2,000, because the worker was already financially stable?
Let me guess bartending shouldn’t pay like an educated position?
That sounds elitist, i thought you people were anti elite?
Only about 30% around here tipped. And to do this kind of work, you rely on tips.
@@Wildcat82164 I get it. I'm youngish and fit and running errands are the only activity out of the apartment I can get most days, so why would I spend more money and be lazy with deliveries??
it's mostly annoying when celebrities say "we are all in this together" from their 4th house with $35 million in their bank account while I'm out doing Uber Eats
Same, dude! :/
The hilarious part is when people defend the celebrities. Apparently "it's not really their stuff" is an argument lol
@@Denji2006 Nuclear physics is not my thing, but I have the sense of not trying to build a particle accelerator in my basement
Exactly, welcome to modern capitalism
I find Bill Maher so obnoxiously annoying. He spent 30 years riling up hate for everything and making everything about what divides us. Any point he makes about not being divisive is hypocritical. I really don't need to hear this guy lecture me anymore. There's already enough of that everywhere.
Almost 50 and still single. I can assure you that wasn't the plan. I can also assure you seeing my friends and family struggling with marriages, divorces and children and the financial implications of all three played a role in the result.
If our leaders want to help out families then they should stop perpetuating a world where its cost prohibitive to start one much less keep the damned thing together.
There’s nothing wrong with that at all, better to not be married at all then divorced 3 times.
@@WichoSuavee Why not have a society where people can choose?
If you leave out the children it is not so bad.
Not afraid of getting old alone? It's harder to make friends and to keep friends when everybody around you is either in a long term relationship or... dead.
@@georgethompson3763 If I had a dollar per every family man who died alone, I'd be rich and could afford to start a family while not changing my odds of dying alone.
Thanks you. So sick of hearing stuff like, "While we're all stuck at home" when most of my family is still having to work in person, including my 72-year-old Dad.
I hear you! I'm almost 71 out there in a salon working to eat. No vaccine, no unemployment. The forgotten generation.
Hell half of the population isn't even staying at home so...
Same
@@hew195050 It's not a generational thing. Baby Boomers are both largely responsible for building this mess of a country as well as suffering the worst of it.
Likewise the younger generations are also profiting from and suffering from inequality.
If you need an "us and them" it's the same one it has been for 10,000 years: the wealthy and the rest of us.
@@RubelliteFae thanks. Good point!
As a military veteran, I stood and applauded when he said saying "we are in this together" is the new "thank you for your service". That hit with me.
yeah i used to cringe when people said it. it used to be a race to who said it first. always felt it was disingenuous. just like waving an American flag is cheap patriotism.
I finally snapped one day after someone said "thank you for your service", I replied "don't thank me for killing people in your name so you didn't have to do it!". It felt like a huge weight was lifted from my soul.
So why do you support politicians who have no problem wihh th sending you or me out to die?
@@lakersfansince1991 Honestly speaking, we as a collective are more to blame than our political leaders because we have decided that voting, which is a necessary evil, will be based on party affiliation far more than issues. That said, these guys use their positions to enrich themselves and as long as their kids are safe who cares. That said, my comments weren't going down that rabbit hole. I focused more on the mindset of the public but I appreciate your opinion and I respect you as a brother in arms
@@lakersfansince1991 Who are you directing your comment to? Joining the military doesn't automatically mean one is in support of "politicians who have no problem 'wihh th' sending you or me out to die". People who make comments like yours wouldn't last one day in the military.
As a gig economy food delivery driver, I really appreciated this segment.
I appreciate your work ethic.
Thank you for your hard work
Thank you for your sacrifice
Holy shit, someone said something supportive about single people on live television! Never imagined I'd see that happen.
Seriously, they're generally portrayed as selfish, weird, or both. (As if having a child is some kind of lavish gift you bestow upon the world.)
A chronically single celebrity having an argument for being single. SHOCKER!
When he talked about going bald I felt that in my soul.
And it needs to happen a lot more. Tired of hearing about these people and their moron kids
@@shawnmurphy1455 word brother!
Airlines: We're in this together.
Also Airlines: Your bag weighs 50.1 pounds, that will be $100 please.
I DONT CARE WHAT HISTORY STATES......IN THE 1990'S, THAT WAS THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING!
@@98ifylopio The 1960s and 70s were the golden years for flight.
@@Shayne42069 please explain !
That literally happened to be with United several years ago. It was 50.1 pounds, and the lady said, that'll be $100. I asked for the supervisor, and he came, heard 50.1 pounds and just flipped me over and demanded $100. I just took out a sweater, and it was under 50 lbs. Cocksuckers.
@@valeenoi2284 genius mode, I've done that before with booze I used to bring home from Scotland back when you could take it on carry-on, fuck 'em😆
Thank you! You are literally the only person who has talked about how COVID has affected single people!!!
Triggernometry has, a few times. Douglas Murray too.
Affecting single people 🤣🤣🤣 it’s like the most selfish thing I’ve heard in my life
"What are Uber and Lyft really but Americanized rickshaws." ~Bill Maher~
Americanized high tech jeepneys.
Kramer & Newman were ahead of their time
He meant that to be denigrating but in reality, they are good jobs to be thankful for.
@@jimmydriveway Yes good jobs were you get paid less than minimum wage and you have to supply all the consumables to do the job. Including the wear and tear on their cars many Uber and Lyft drivers are loosing money on their jobs.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 Then learn a different skill and find a job that pays more.
Keep this energy when the next mainstream candidate touts "jobs jobs jobs" instead of careers. The last 20 years, over 90% of the new jobs created have been temp gig or contract. AKA no benefits, stability or job security.
" rugged individualism " for the workers .welfare for rich . every bailout , financial aid , zero interest loans and the largest amount goes to the upper class first and the lower class last with the least . ones that need the least get the most first and those that need it the most get the least last . best govt. for lobbyists and similar grifters and those they represent . " for the love of money a man will sell his own brother.. "
But careers are for those who most likely complete higher education at the university level. If college is affordable, perhaps these careers can pop up. On-campus living should be affordable, at least competitive with off-campus housing to encourage continuing education as well. But, this is America.
It's the Republicans who do this, usually when describing some way to help people financially as a "job killer." Some jobs need to be killed so careers, or at least living-wage jobs, can live.
So true. Fuck jobs I want a career. Baby Boomers won't get the fuck out of the way and have bottle necked the system. I was hoping covid would have wiped a lot of them out. Oh well, maybe the next new mutant strain will?
@@JOHN----DOE weird. Most of these gig companies are run by liberals.
We're all in this together.. says the CEO of huge companies who don't have to go out and work in a pandemic.. they're safely at home while the people who they pay $12 an hour are working in this mess...
Don’t forget the people in their homes bitching that the people delivering their foods might get paid $15 hr in five years
My thoughts exactly.
$12??? Who’s getting fracking $12? i am barely over $9. i don’t deliver food but i do have to yell at anti-maskers.
@@vernonzehr a lot of people making $12 an hour..some people are making $15 an hour it all depends what state you live in
$12? I make $11.15 an hour before taxes and union dues bagging groceries and bringing in carts rain, shine, or blizzard.
We're in the same storm but not in the same boats
Yachts vs dingy
Many of us have known from a very early age that we are NOT all in this together.
We never were in the first place. Life is a game and you will make it or not depending on how you play it. People only "care" for you when they have to and will only do certain things IF they have to. If not, their behavior does not change and they could give a rat's ass about you. The way to play the game is to become the best in whatever you want to do, find a good organization and create a strong team of co-dependence and self-interest. Do not spread yourself out unless you really have to. You will only fuck up your mentality and identity having to change all the time and going in different directions. Go all-in for 1 thing, it's always the best thing.
Each man for himself and god for us all should be the motto of silicon valley and wall st.
Im an uber eats driver in the UK, Ive never had so many tips as during the last few days while its been snowing and awful, at least some people appreciate that we are out in the cold, bringing food to their nice, warm house.
My company, Waitr has guaranteed tip days which I'm thankful for but business has been slow since the hurricanes.
Cars can be warmth cocoons too but you do have to leave them briefly to do your job. I love all this curbside stuff. Just sit in the warm car and listen to music.
My delivery driver yesterday said that the tip from me was the first one he's had in 3 days.
@@DT-dc4br Poor guy. On the apps I use, I can see the tip and choose to decline those orders.
Of course Brits have the NHS while Americans do not. Still I wonder, can you make ends meet?
“We’re in this together” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”
THIS
Good one!
I thought it was "Thank you for your service".
stay safe
nailed that comment
BILL MAHER is the KING OF SNARK and I LOVE it!!!
@WorldFlex I agree however sometimes he is on Point
This speaks to me. I work a full time, live alone and have no health insurance. I am a real American.
well got thing you are not a fake one
I do wake up in my bliss every day.
you could always start selling arbonne or skinny coffee - nothing says american like pyramid scheme ;)
@@elementofrandomthought4492 but I don’t know about that . The old saying is “ If you want to get rid of your friends, join Amway !
@@dagnabbit6187 id have to take the bus sir, we dont have one lol
A WEEK into the pandemic I was already sick of hearing ‘were in this together’.
that and all the other stupid catchphrases and over used terminology the media have used for a year now! fuck im sick of this shitty era!
@@mikekrause3671 So, what are you going to do to make it better ad shift into a new better era then? I'd like to hear your ideas.
@@sethflix ad shift? whats' an ad shift
@@sethflix oh stfu you
Ditto here!
Thanks for the grubhub drivers shout out. OMG THE SINGLE SHOUT OUT IS EVERYTHING!!!!
i do doordash/grubhub full time for the past 2 yrs and 4 months...in that time i've only taken 3 weeks off, TOTAL. in 2020, i took 3 days off in april and that was it. i've been busting my fucking ass like you wouldn't believe. over 10k deliveries in that time.
@@thwipp89 Show us a video of you crying about it
Yeah, I just commented the same! Wassup!
@@jamesmiller5331 You always this snarky to the delivery guy?
@@jamesmiller5331 that's why they spit in your food.
I Love this commentary, it’s So True! The whole “We’re all in this together” thing is such disingenuous horse shit!
And now that mayor in Texas thing. There are a huge group that only cares for themselves.
The UK government also used this slogan when their economy wasn't doing well. And I thought the same thing. It's often being said by people who got plenty of money and won't feel a thing from the 💩 situation you're in.
I’m in this with my friends and family, everyone else can blow me
The solution isn't to stop talking about helping families, it's to start talking about helping single people as well
Actually, it's about talking of everyone as being part of society. It is the job of the government, to care for all its citizens. At least, it should be in America where the creed is "A government for the people, by the people".
@@justadad6677 I don't think we disagree there
Single people should get a free ride from the government for not adding to the population, frankly. And no, I'm not being tongue in cheek. Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unplanned, so it's a combination of being uneducated and careless which is contributing to the destruction of our environment. Time to reward the responsible ones.
@Alternative Headlines I've heard that argument many times over from overpopulation deniers, and I'm not going to revisit all the talking points of why you're dead wrong.
But asking people to alter their consumption habits has about much chance of working as telling people to stop fucking, so we're destined for failure either way.
Well we're agreed a lot of talking's going on then.
I had a PTSD flashback when Bill mentioned the "passive aggressive sigh". So glad I don't have to hear that anymore!
Hahaha exactly!! Thanks Bill for giving voice to contented single out here
_Wow, _*_Bill, this was beautiful..._*_ very romantic. Carlin would be proud of you. Keep it up Man._
I disagree with Bill on plenty, but the reason I’ve been a fan for over 20 years is because he keeps it real. This is the most realistic and accurate depiction of our current state I’ve heard.
onyfans....thank GOD all these hot women are so desperate for money! :P
It's accurate if you ignore a million million things which bill has no idea about.
The way of things~ "Have you noticed that all the instruments searching for intelligent life are pointing away from earth." !??
The biggest reason we know that there is intelligent life throughout the universe... They never tried to contact us..
No shit sherlock, and you just barely noticed that now? If the people running all these instruments are considered not so intelligent, then we all know where that puts you right?! Or can you not figure that one either?
No shit sherlock, and you just barely noticed that now? If the people running all these instruments are considered not so intelligent, then we all know where that puts you right?! Or can you not figure that one either?
They would be pointing away from earth if we're looking for intelligent life outside our own world. Maybe try another analogy.
2nd death from Covid in the last two weeks at my wife's workplace. The companies response? "Employees should take their own temperature before coming to work." This from a multi-national company with billions in assets. I guess buying some themometers and paying someone to screen workers at the door is just too costly. Apparently making copier toner is an "essential service".
Anyone near covid positive people are supposed to quarantine, aren’t they?
A, fellow Staples employee I see? We had two coworkers already get infected. They're both still alive, but we were given the same response "Just take your own temperature before coming to work". You'd think we'd at least force the customers to take it because THEY'RE the ones who likely got our employees sick but hey, when you're a multibillion dollar company, what's a few infected and possibly dead employees, if you can replace them with others easily?
My manager might actually care more about my health than the company, if only because he sent us home both of those days and makes it a point to make sure customers wear their masks (and sanitizes and cleans the store like an OCD neat freak). Can't say the same about upper management though.
we are a non profit mental health agency and we take employees temps..t hat is ridiculous
It is essential to the owners & CEO & stock holders.
😡👹😡
Yep. The days where everyone gets married and pops out a couple of kids because its just what you do are coming to an end.
This is frightening to most people. Think about the fallout. Babies (boys) are not being born, no one to send off to war to protect the country. Slowly losing grip on their way of life with privilege. That's why they must promote 'the family'.
@@unbotheredmovement Also not enough new kids to add to the consumption cycle.
@@unbotheredmovement If the country's leaders really want to improve conditions to increase reproduction and promote the family, then they really need to focus on restoring American confidence in the economy. These situations are side effects of what is happening in the economy right now.
@@kevinkim3793 you say "restore confidence in the economy". Agreed! However, at what cost? Keep giving corporations tax breaks and pray for the trickle-down? Or beg them not to manufacture/outsource overseas?
Until we can effectively & thoroughly care for each and every one of our current citizens, including the most vulnerable, we haven't earned the right to add to the population.
Awwwwwwwww I’m an instacart delivery driver with severe asthma, hypertension and on immunosuppressants. Not ideal to be out there 7 days a week but I don’t have many other options (yet!) this was nice to hear, thanks bill!
whats your onlyfans
@@energeez don’t have one, seems like a thing I’d hate
@@daniellemcnulty6076 😛🥰
@First Last 🤦
@Bruce Gender Trans Jenner you never heard of severe asthma or hypertension? Common enough health issues but uh…ok
Bill has never been more on the money here. Retail and food service workers are indentured servants and the people who use our services are our masters.
Perhaps your country should, you know... pay them better. The minimum wage in my country is $19.84
Except for him still being unable to see the larger problem behind the gig economy etc. which isn't evil cancel culture (his favourite topic) but rather commodification of all parts of life, also called american capitalism. Even if he doesn't want to go there he would've had the chance to talk about prop22 in California. But pf course he's way to lazy to research about that
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra sure, but can you buy a pack of gum with that?
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra lol. Which country? Bruh, this is relative to the world. It’s called globalization, right it’s someone else’s excuse. Plus another generations head ache. Blah blah.
@@veitdalee4810 Exactly, he really didn't talk about it at all. He jumped from topic to topic and no point of substance was ever made. Funny how the Californian didn't even mention how Prop 22 is fucking over those same gig workers he started talking about.
I get the idea that this gig economy is the long-term result of Reaganomics: more and more money is directed to the top of the economic pyramid, with less financial and labor security for the lower echelons.
Reagan destroyed America.
@Novak Tolee I live in a state with legal casino gambling (not Nevada), and I see PoC doing the most menial jobs, like emptying the garbage, while all the bartenders are white. I haven't gone back to that particular casino in over 18 months and don't ever plan to go back.
Here in New Zealand at about the same time we had a guy named Roger Douglas who was the instigator of this same kind of economic change. We call it Rogernomics. He has since admitted it was wrong.
@@tumsfestival Bartending - the first thing I think of when I hear not menial work. That's why when people mock AOC, they call her a bartender/waitress because it's such a glamorous, highly skilled profession.
@@delailama736 the position would be better filled by an old, white male that's why haha.
Mocking AOC by a position similar to the people is problematic. Since the Senate or House shouldn't be represented by such obviously... change scares people.
Bill, leading adult singles in the self-love revolution for decades. Thank you, life-long single Bill - it means the world to so many of us.
I love this man's objectivity, wonderful delivery of banter mixed with crude reality.
This made me literally laugh out loud!!: "STFU, Mitt!!"😂😂
"Passive aggressive sigh .." .. 😅😅 brings out many bad memories.. but makes me happier now that I don't have to deal with it anymore...oooof
What did you do with your woman, dude?
@@xSUBIACOx Oh, stop. Im a gay man with no horse in race of hetero culture, and I've dealt with my share of those passive aggressive sighs from my female friends for along as I can remember. In fairness, there are gay man who have been able to perfect that action.
The point is, I get it. There is something to be said for being alone with no one to answer to. I love being childless. I've done so much I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. I'll risk being alone in my 80's. It'll be worth it for what I done and seen in the here and now. I'm just sick of being treated like crap for it, and that feeling is growing nationally.
Single 40 year old here. Love your rules, Bill. About time someone spoke up for single people.
Love from Australia.
Why do we single people need someone to speak up for us? Are we oppressed or something?
@@hagdore Have you ever heard a politician stand up for singles like they do for families? I'm going to guess you haven't.
@@nickbarcheck1019 No, I have not. What's your point? Why do they need to? Your comment has not answered my question.
@@hagdore everyone wants to be a victim. It's an unfortunate side effect from current liberal culture
@@hagdore No, singles aren't oppressed. At least I'm not. It's just bizarre politicians and the media yammer on and on about families and never talk about single people. I'm not "offended" by it. It's just really odd.
My least favorite part of being single is how some people view single life. I have been told twice that my life has no meaning or value, simply because I'm single. It's just mind blowing that some people think getting married and/or having kids is the only way to have a fulfilling life.
Especially since many people regret that they have children 🤦
Just tell them that George Washington had no known children
I absolutely agree and know this well.
As a married man with a family, I FUCKING wish I was single and alone. This life fucking sucks.
It’s the only way to make sure our society has a future. No children, no future
Having a family, it is your choice, stop ramming it down my throat.
I hate the tax cuts. If I was married I would have my taxes cut in half.
Ramming it down a throat is how I avoid a family... (Sorry man, I couldn't miss that one; it was right there!)
@@chrispy1398 killer🤣
@@toriless My aunt got married and she told me that it was the worst thing she ever did tax wise. She ranted about it for like twenty minutes.
"Getting a good night's sleep... not sharing the remote, or changing dirty diapers...never having to have a relationship talk, or having to listen to a passive aggressive sigh - PRICELESS."
Bill just summed up the source of my personal happiness for decades, and I'm sure he speaks for MILLIONS of us around the world.
Yep!!!!
bill seems to be a little a disgruntle when it comes to being single and having a hot asian chic , on the other side of the fiber optic cable . i guess bill does not like to stroke , that is probably why bill smokes weed it makes him limp . Bill you really should look up the New England Journal of medicine
on prostate and masturbating . And Elvis always said if you cant find a partner grab wooden chair sweet heart .
@@jamesjcazzman3007 well, the good news is, you're not weird at all.
I'm assuming you have or had parents. Perhaps one or both still live. Ask them if you were worth it.
@@davidthompson7873 fact that I was worth it doesn't change the fact that 1. millions of us are happy not being married, 2. Millions more are miserable BEING married, 3. Bill is right to point out that laws and politics favors the one and not the other for completely arbitrary reasons
What did George Carling said about the American Dream? Oh yeah, something like, It's called a dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.
I'm 29 and have a house am engaged and have a 50k/year job. It's only a dream if you don't want to work for it
@@keithknetge6908 I'm actually even better off than you are, and not even born in the US and have been working remotely way before Covid, but I'm not blind to what I see around me when I'm in the US. You're like the guy who look at a guy who's been shot with a .357 magnum in the chest and survived and says, see, no big deal being shot with that caliber. Talking about your case is talking about one case, it's anecdotal. When you take the average US citizen most of them can't even find 400 bucks in case of emergency. I'm sure you've read that article 3 years ago, in the Atlantic, I believe? The average citizen in the US is doing worse than most people in France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Japan at all level, financially, as far as life expectancy and more. So you're saying that a poor black girl born from a crack mother in some of the worse place in DC in a country where her state won't do shit for her has the same chance as a white jewish boy born in Bethesda and whose parents are both lawyers? Are these two people starting with the same tools to work hard at it?
@@keithknetge6908 I see you haven’t answered yet. Good. That means you might be thinking.
@@PhilippeOrlando Speaking as an atheist, what does religion have to do with your hypothetical white boy? Could just as easily be an evangelical Christian or Buddhist.
Carlin was a vaguely witty misogynistic coke head.
As a single 32 yr old RN from Florida, without kids, I appreciated this.
32yr old here single female here as well and totally appreciate his commentary. As I get older, I'm thinking I may not want to have children, and am feeling I will be VERY okay with this decision, not empty nor unfulfilled. However, I am starting to see how society/the media expects me at my age to idk maybe have a husband/have children... be in this nuclear family box.
@@lizziedrucker9586 - ever since i was a kid myself, the thought of raising children my whole life seemed horrible lol. Watching my parents argue and bicker constantly, 2 people who seemingly have nothing in common and don't enjoy each other's company but built an entire life together because "it was time to have kids" and that's just "what people do", engrained in me from a young age what a fucked up dynamic that was and how it's even more fucked up that it's what society seems to push as "normal". The lazy dad who just wants to drink beer and watch football, the naggy wife who never wants her husband to drink beer and watch football, the shithead kids who run around screaming, that is what was constantly painted as a "normal life" most places you looked and i could just never wrap my head around that.
Now at 35, it's even truer than it used to be. Despite the fact that i did get married, it's a completely different dynamic lol and we spent YEARS listening to the "oh just wait, you'll get a couple years older and realize how bad you want kids, you'll realize you have to do it before you get to old and can't enjoy things the same" and SO MANY people just couldn't comprehend that we so legitimately wanted nothing to do with it. The argument is to do it while you're young because you'll get too old? So spend the prime fucking years of my life changing diapers and dealing with temper tantrums because it will suck worse to deal with that when i'm older? SO WHY DO IT AT ALL THEN ?!?! i'll keep my time and money for myself i think, barely enough of both to go around as it is lol
I'm sure raising kids can be wonderful for some people, doesn't mean we're all expected to do it. There are a million ways to fulfill your life, don't let anyone else tell you what requires.
You clock is running down, better get it with before its times up
Finally,, Someone said it.., Singles Exist..
yeah, he said it because it makes rating, trouble is society collapses when you have too many singles, please don't make me explain why
@@AI3Dorinte he’s been praising being single since the 1990’s
I like marching around with a sign that says: We're here, we drink beer, (alone) get used to it!
@@WhitneyHaverstock cool, no kids = USA goes bankrupt and is defenseless - makes sense?
@@AI3Dorinte the real issue is percentages. There needs to be a threshold of births and the infrastructure to support and educate them to become productive people.
Yes, I cherished living alone, especially when I was finally able to buy a nice little beach shack on the Central Coast of California. I worked a long hard day, and when I come home I don't want to deal with a bunch of BS. It's a luxury to live well alone. Thanks Bill, much appreciated.
Not to mention that these children are raised by underpaid daycare workers
Way underpaid. I left America in 2015 making 7.25 an hr working 40hrs a week as a childcare worker. I was making more at the center I worked at then another woman who worked at a church daycare where she had been employed for over 20 years. Its crazy. Its one of the most important jobs and they get poverty wages.
@@colleenmaecallender7478 the real problem is the rent. We bailed out the billionaires so they could buy up all the homes and airBnB them.
@@colleenmaecallender7478 here in MA the average annual cost for daycare is about $34,381 per child...where’s the fee going to? Lining the daycare owner’s pockets?
Well maybe if you have a child you should raise them instead of hiring other people to raise them.
And who exactly should be caring for children when one parent leaves or dies?
Right now, it’s “We’re in this together.” When schools reopen, it will go back to “Thoughts and Prayers.”
As a mom, we need our kids in school. Please stop .
"The meek shall inherit the Earth".
Yeah. All 6 feet of it!
Or ashes to ashes dust to dust
This one got me! 😆
But only for a few years until the city needs the land
The priests at the temples of syrinx taught me this great saying
Wait wtf? I'm happy af to be single during Valentine's & the rest of the year hahaha
@@austinha11 blessings 💚🙏 lol
Good for you, I have lots of single friends...and they are calm and content, take care
I heard that! I'm single, gay, I have no kids. I feel like I'm just looked over by politicians. Some aren't wild about my lifestyle but they sure love my income tax.
Don't you dare talk back to me while I take your money.
Alone. Lifetime single here, never had children (no regrets). I've paid school taxes my entire adult life. Do I get a break on income tax? Nope. Society punishes singles.
@@betz6507 - Correct, and OECD figures have made this clear for years. The single and childfree pay in, but get far less back, as it's all built on the notion that our turn will come around. Increasingly, that's been proven to be incorrect.
Why should anyone care? Seriously. Why?
Considering that the proportion of single people is ever-increasing, and indeed that the single and childfree bear the highest tax wedge in pretty much all OECD countries, this is something where old taxation models are still rather built on 1950s social models of working husband, stay-at-home wife and don't reflect current realities anywhere near as much.
The emaphasis on family is up there with politicians only acknowledging the middle class. Lots of people aren't middle fuckin' class, either, and during the pandemic that's who has made this country run.
Happy Single’s Day everybody!
Thanks! You as well!
My first valentines as a widow. Think ill do a drive through and have a glass of wine .......who am l kidding ....2
Yeah Buy yourself some chocolates, flowers or nothing at all and save yourself some money. Happy another "Do whatever you want day"
@@lastnamefirst4035 i do love choc........gadiva.
@@sodarndonestopthelies6514 gift yourself on the 14th and enjoy as much as you can. Godiva, my favorite too...(another single lady-Sue)
Ellen, from her $25M house, after we went on lockdown: "it feels like a prison sentence." Must be nice.
To be fair a gilded cage is still a cage, but its a pretty nice one.
I spent two days on a hotel that was all I was locked down. I like being outside. I liked spending a few hours a day sitting around Starbucks or a library. That's all I miss about pre lockdown.
Watching this as I reflect upon selling some of my mom's jewelry today. Edit: It's actually my jewelry that she left to me. Sounded like I stole her stuff, lol.
Literally, nobody cared in the first place.
Omg. I am so sorry. I sold most of my furniture and sleep on the floor now but at least I have a riof over my head
off her corpse too.
@@sarahwyatt2697 Well, I cared. Your move.
@@sarahwyatt2697 you are very mean. There was a person sharing something personal and you kick her in the teeth! Not such a lovely human being you are. U can do better than this.
Really loved this! Single women and men, especially without kids are so stigmatized. It needs to stop.
@PR0GRAMMING you're
Trans woman are not real woman and Antifa is pathetic. Trump won so get ready 2024
@@kyleyost1163 y
what kind of asshole corrects someones comment spelling
Our Prime minister is single here in the Netherlands, that has actually been kind of refreshing. And like most single people he gets a lot of work done.
@@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109 the kind of person who wants to help someone get a job in the future? What kind of asshole doesn't know the difference between you, your and you're?
Our bastardization (English) of many languages. You could at least have a 5th grade level understanding of it.
Thank you Bill. Tonight I feel better about being single. It was the "passive aggressive sigh" I thought was most brilliant!
@WorldFlex , I've often said single people and childless couples are the ones getting screwed at tax time. Interesting how the same politicians who complain there are to many people using up earth's resources are the same politicians who reward those who have more children.
0:16 thank you! I'm a key worker and have been working all through the pandemic, and when I hear that it really pisses me off!
Ive been working as well and thanks~👍
@@JarodM stay safe🌹
@@Hi-to-ri Thank you, you too~
@Dean F. That's rough brother, you chose an occupation I could not do.
@Dean F. thanks for everything you do 🌹
Reminds me of a kitschy cushion I saw in a gift shop once that said 'A house is not a home without children'. I pointed out to the shop owner that, amongst other things, people unable to have children would find such a statement upsetting.
The gig economy is just the end result of decades of growing wealth inequality. What you're seeing now is the bottom 50% literally picking up table scraps off the floor; scavenging for a dollar anywhere they can find one. This is what "trickle down" ended up being, and it's not like economists haven't been ringing alarm bells for years.
Maybe the bottom 50% should join together and kill the top 1%?
@@christiandauz3742 Don't be silly. The bottom 50% have to answer for such crimes.
@@sixstanger00
The bottom 50% has nothing to lose. We are the 'Walking Dead'
The 1% only knows one kind of accountability. The Guillotine
@@christiandauz3742 JEEZ DUDE.....YIKES!
@@98ifylopio
If the Republikkkan Party disappeared around 1960s the US would be in a much better place. Americans would be as prosperous as Europeans
We need to demand the Minimum wage working for big businesses should be up to 21/hr
I did the math and it basically costs the same to heat or cool a home, light a room, have cable or netflix, and pay rent or property taxes for both singles and couples, but a couple potentially has 2 incomes, which means many singles are already paying more for everything, that couples share. And even when things do cost couples more like increased energy consumption, the rate rarely doubles. Singles don't benefit from joint tax filing, or family plans. Couples can share nearly everything from the couch they sit on to the pots and pans in the kitchen. But I'm frequently told that we have to help families...Take that sob story elsewhere. Just because couples didn't think to buy birth control with all the money they saved not being single, dosen't obligate me to subsidize their life. I'm not saying don't help the less fortunate but politicians can quit trying to pull on my heart strings with talk of struggling families. It's not just families who are struggling...maybe just refer to us all as struggling Americans, that seems more accurate 🤔
As a single teacher, I can confirm - I raise the next generation a bunch more than many parents, and as much as others
Edit:
Given the nature of the comments, I feel it necessary to add that I do not teach in the US and that I teach kids from very poor areas, most of whom have terrible families. I am, however, also aware that much of the US faces the same plague of terrible families, and that more often than not it falls onto us teachers to do the parenting that the parents should be doing, and that it was to that which I was referring. The fact that me and some of the commentors do live in such different realities, however, only goes to show testament to the very problems Bill is describing here
As a married father of two who's a teacher, no you don't! How much daily shit and piss do you deal with? How much frustration at home trying to work or do daily tasks with constant interruption to make drinks, break up fights, bathe children, or force them to do schoolwork? I'm in no way belittling teaching but it's NOT the same. You should have more respect for your students' working parents and stop judging them.
@@djb903
There's a reason I said some. Most of my students are a seriously abused at home and I'm their last line of defence. All the things you do to you for your kids - nobody does for these, and it falls on me. Poor areas don't have the privilege of being filled with parents who do anything for their kids
You're a teacher? Horrible grammar. Must be a teacher in Florida.
@@ibeg0ht or maybe I'm not even in an English speaking country
Or maybe I know that there's a difference between formal grammar and the grammar used on the internet
Or maybe a bit of both
Those who can't do, teach.
Single people do and always have gotten a bad rap. I’m a single 29 yr old living alone with my dog and am very okay with that. If you have/want kids and a family that’s great, but society shouldn’t subordinate everyone else who doesn’t.
Amen 🙏
Perfect age, 30-40 year old woman are orgasm machines.
Michael Karl. Single people don't really have anything in their lives to keep them honest.
@@toriless Look closer. They're older than that.
@@toriless word!
Being single is not a sign of failure, sadly this is how it is viewed. Washing someone else’s socks and pants doesn’t make your life wonderful.
Yesssss
We must serve others ,I like helping strangers makes me whole.
Just a thought
@@noneofurbiss yes but her comment is about the expected servitude of laundering socks for someone than stranger kindness
Yes very true and funny
Sad comment
As a single person, Bill talking about how much he hates this “families” bullshit is always music to my ears. 😊
Which is why you're a single person.
@@Cool-Edit-5000 No, I'm a single person because I want to.
@@lacountess Whatever you need to tell yourself.
@@Cool-Edit-5000 I don't need to tell myself anything.
@@lacountess LOL
Single military personnel are paid less and stand guard duty more than married personnel. They chose to marry. Why are singles being discriminated against?
Isn't it obvious? Because society has a vested interest in people having children.
@@michaelkrull3331 Society isn't, economy does....
If you've not heard of Bella DePaulo, her book Singled Out is a very good examination of singlism, the discrimination of single people.
Because they choose to not exploit the hustle with another service member they dont love to make more money.
I was a single service member, I chose that, but I'm not going to whine, bitch and moan about it, I got paid well.
True, and don't forget that single people are hit harder ar tax time while families get a refund just for choosing to have kids.
I refused to even have a gf until I found one who is not interested in marriage or having kids. You don't have to settle people, your unicorn is out there lol
same lol
We can be single, childless, and happy. Stop making us explain ourselves.
Explain yourself. When are you getting married its time
Always turn it round. Rude questions deserve rude answers. If anyone asks me when I'm having kids, I say "same time you get an abortion", and if anyone asks me when am I getting married, I say "same time you get divorced".
You got that right Bill, living alone is priceless and also stressless.
Says only people who can choose either, try be alone not by choice
@@robinjames8727 I live alone not by choice and by choice but I don't let that consume me, I'm happy most of the time. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something constructive or creative with your time is the key to being happy on your own instead of drowning in your thoughts/feelings of loneliness, a pet helps too.
"Stressless"? Wow! I envy you.
Couldn't agree with Bill more about the benefits of not having a family.
Oh, I'm quite sorry that you couldn't find a right man, don't give up though!
So don't really have anything in your life to keep you honest 😕?
@@DrMrNikolaMax What the fuck are you talking about? Not everyone want a romantic relationship for various reasons. This is 2021 not 1960
@@Lightner445555555555 Never happening because this is 2021 not 1960.
Well Bill I'm a single New Yorker too and I love how I don't need to change diapers, but we need to take care of families, because as a teacher they are the source of my income, and you should know how fucked up rent is in Long island without a good wage
I have none. My sister has 7. I think the next generation's probably covered, though it's true there are likely to be fewer of them overall. That just means we'll have to start letting in immigrants to keep up with the labor demands, greater automation, or that the kids will have much better prospects in the labor market because there will be fewer of them to compete and we will have hopefully done what we could to change policies that have screwed us over. There are still children. There's just fewer of them. That can be a good thing.
@Rick Sanchez damn straight
@@wordforger unfortunately I'm not a sociologist I can't forge an opinion without proper knowledge
Universal Basic Income people!!!!
we gotta yes
Yes. The solution to problems caused by government fuckery is even more government fuckery.
I don't want it to come to that, but if we don't start changing course...
Universal basic income is not the answer
@@annieonymouse4467
And that’s not coming until maybe sometime in March, if they can work together to pass the bill before the end of February.
We're in the same storm but in very different boats.
Oh Bill, as always - spot on! Uber used to be coolish as an app to share your car from time to time, but this was never meant to be a career path!
People instead of "family" would be so much more acceptable!
Yes, for sure. It's far more inclusive since families are composed of people. It makes sense.
But really...... what’s the difference. You’re in a family regardless of if you live with them or not
@sabbracadabra right but people with kids need more support because the future of society depends on them. Today’s children will be the workforce that pays social security taxes and develops cures and defends our borders when we’re old. No kids, no society. That’s why government focuses on it
@@bidmcms3 referencing the word...people; as in All inclusive! STOP trying to divide Up the populous with limitation by WORDS
@@marckz06 Dictionary!
Well on the bright side we all have the unalienable right to drop dead someday!
What's your retirement plan?
Dying. ☠️😁
The one sure right under capitalism.
But not when we want.
So true.
"I like waking up alone in the morning."
-Bill Maher, on the Howard Stern show
It's fucking precious.
@Science is Hard "The minute we're born, we get a one way ticket to the freak show." -George Carlin
*wakes up, rolls over, taps on Only Fans app*
Maher's one of those child-free hypocrites who gushes over his dogs-- who never grow up and out of their eternal toddler stage-- yet bitches about babies.
@Science is Hard I look at my married friends and think, "That looks like more work than I want to do, but kudos to them for making it work." I'm independent and plan to stay that way; I don't always feel like our culture has an understanding outlook on that.
Happily Single and Childless!!!
This quarantine hasn't been that bad
Yeah dude I feel bad for folks with kids this shit had to have been a rough ride.
I’ve worked all through the entire pandemic. I’m thankful for my job, but my friends who’ve gotten unemployment make more than their current job and just do what they want all day. Seems a little unfair to me, but I’ll continue to count my blessings and appreciate my lame job because so many have lost theirs.
Well, I'm one of those single people, but I still think it's very important to strengthen families and empower children etc. But thanks Bill, humorous and entertaining and thought provoking.
I’m glad that bill just brought up the struggles of single folk. I just broke up with my gf and I have no idea how I’m gonna get back out there. I can’t go to bars or clubs. Now I’m thinking about asking out the girl that works at my local 7-eleven which I’ve literally never done before. Wish me luck y’all
"Can't go to bars or clubs" - why? It might be just as well -- meeting people when there's alcohol involved is often not a good thing. (Booze can make people flaky.) BUT I have met a few cool people in, say, clubs where there is live music -- if you maybe chat with someone that's THERE because they actually LIKE THE MUSIC as opposed to "being there because it's a club/because they want to look cool/etc." I'm a single jazz fan guy and if I go to this club to hear some music yet if I don't "meet anyone," I can say to myself, "Hey, at least I heard a good band tonight." Hey, even if you DON'T "meet someone" maybe ya heard some cool sounds, dig?
Good luck... stay out of relationships for a while and just date 😉
Ever thought of spending some time alone? You might find you really like your own company. It can be really great hanging out w yourself and a few friends plus getting to know yourself better can only benefit your next relarionship
In time you will learn that relationships are overrated. Seriously.
Boo fucking hoo. I've been single for 3 years.
Come on, Bill...alone is the new together
_"We're All In This Together"_
Right up there with _"Thoughts and Prayers"_ in the *Condescending Platitudes Hall of Fame*
@william henderson I pray. I love you all. Love is the answer.
Love it so much!!!!
The "gig economy" may have also inadvertently contributed to the spread of covid, as millenials and boomers alike are learning that not every house should be a hotel and not every car should be a taxi.
"No security" simply rebranded as "freedom", that's the US.
I love the freedom that freelancing brings... I'd appreciate you not taking that flexibility away from me and instead locking me into a scheduled contract where I feel a bit like a slave :)
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose"
@@so-dan-bought-some-land You read my mind.
Bill, thank you for sticking up for single people. We sure are the forgotten ones.
Yet again Bill Maher has hit the nail on the head. X
The future will be everyone selling themselves on cam.
Virtual relationships, txt marriages lol this has degenerated into one sick society
@@eargasm1072 we started with genocide, moved onto slavery to civil inequality to praising the wealthy, how could it end like this?
🤣
Or having UA-cam channels or podcasts. It's too much.
That's the present.
The future will be the same but in a virtual reality indistinguishable from this one-and in which people can make their virtual selves and environments anything they want them to be.
I'm 55 yrs old & never reproduced. I do not regret my wise decision!
Almost 60 now and have known it was the right decision all along.
Same with me.
A human right, and others have the human right to do so and raise their children with dignity and respect that the corrupt two party duopoly will only give lip service to because it only wants to maintain its corruption by dividing us.
Coming home at 4am to not having your liquor cabinet cleaned out and all your weed still in your night stand: Priceless.
Yup. When my friends who chose to have a family complain about how they never get any peace and quiet, I just laugh. You signed up for it, honey. Me, I signed up for no kids and sleep whenever I want it. And it's great!
Amen to that! I'm happy with my cats!
What’s worse than the “families” focus - all the boomer ads showing the blissful over 65 “couple” coiffed & perfect on a Caribbean Island 🌴 drinking Mai tai’s & rich - when reality over half living on social security & alone
Yep! "Is your portfolio up to date?" - lol.
As a nurse I can’t stand hearing the “we’re in this together”. Cause that comes from people who get to work from home nice and cozy, aren’t dealing with the actual cons of this health crisis. Like sorry I don’t get to work from my couch, my life is still going on just a more hellish version at work.
Most people won’t even fucking just stay home to stop spreading the virus. This pandemic taught me how selfish people are even more
I stopped screaming in people's faces. Virus. I throw rocks, now. Baby steps
I don't mind when people say this to get everyone to mask up, social distance and make sacrifice because in that sense we are in this together because if you don't wear a mask you endanger me regardless. So I don't agree with Maher here we are all in this together to a certain degree. Your behavior affects me. However when you are using this phrase in the way of economics and exposure we are not all in this together some people face greater risk because of what they do.
Would America vote a bachelor as president?
Someone should ask Bill to have that conversation
Ironically I don't think one has ever run for president before
It did that, in 1856, when James Buchanan became president. He was the only president who was never married.
what a brilliant question!
@@hisbigal And the worst President ever! But that's a coincidence
Love Bill when it comes to being proudly childless! I got to fifties without ever needing a child in my life. Have about 40 friends who didn’t bother with children either. Sick to death of people breeding all the time.
And having to pay taxes for their fucking kids k-12 bullshit "woke" educations!!!
@RandomName 07 I don't regret having kids; I saved a great deal of money on paying for educations and clothes and other bullshit that America's "Keep up with the Jones" lifestyle implores!!! Why am I supposed to drive for stupid basketball tournaments or soccer tournaments and pay for fucking hotels for this bullshit. When I was a kid I worked a paper route and bought a glove and joined the local little league where all of the games were played in our town and rode a bike to the games. My parents came when they had time and no god damned money shelled out for out of town bullshit. Kids today are money pits for activities that by in large they'll never make a living at it sports wise!!! And many of them whine and gripe and give you grief for years on end; not all but how does one know how a kid will act after you have them.
I'm 70 yo, never married, didn't want children. Getting an extra week off from work, almost impossible. However, a colleague had 3 children in 5 years which means she had PAID LEAVE
for 3 months per child. All I heard at work was it's about the family. When my nephew graduated HS, I could not get the whole day off. I had to work until 1 pm. Yes, it's about THEIR FAMILIES, not mine.
I’m all for people getting good vacations times, and recognizing that family means different things to different people. Your employers should recognize that your time matters as much as anyone else’s.
I also want to say, caring for a newborn is damn hard work. You don’t get to go home and relax or get a full nights sleep. I’m all for parents’ time being compensated.
We need an economy that works better for everyone.
I got one for you we're all in the same ocean but some of us are sailing around and Yachts While others are floating on Doors guess which one you are
The guy with the door knob pressing up against his balls?
I'm probably Jack Dawson at this point
@@ekathe85 I've been eating dog meat for the past 6 months
They're easy to catch and there are plenty in the neighborhood
I’ve had the same partner for 20 years. He lives in his house. 80 miles away. I live in mine. Wonderful, warm, loving relationship. Oh! No children. Yeah!!!
Nobody asked
@@hazardltg We like Ita’s perspective, and likewise, no one asked you.
Yes! Thank you Bill! When do I get MY tax break and/or welfare for being a responsible human being, planning wisely to avoid unwanted pregnancies, and NOT contributing to overpopulation on this planet?
Hear hear!